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[–] 192 points 6 months ago* (8 children)

Shouldn't she be at home looking after the kids, like a good conservative mum?

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  • [–] 99 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    She's trying to find another small-faced husband first.

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  • [–] 54 points 6 months ago

    No, she's busy being on the Air Force Academy board...

    A place where evangelical extremism has been a problem for literal decades and everyone just pretends isn't a big deal.

    Her not talking to a couple hundred highschoolers is nothing compared to the real damage she's doing when she's not pretending to be a couch.

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  • [–] 83 points 6 months ago* (14 children)

    ok, so the headline makes it sound like a bit more than what it was, but:

    A Phoenix-area high school pulled the plug on a planned on-campus appearance by Erika Kirk after a wave of student and parent complaints forced administrators to reconsider hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours, according to a new report.

    Pinnacle High School principal Jeremy Richards sent families a notice Thursday announcing the event would be relocated off school grounds and pushed to after the final bell, saying the visit had the potential to create serious problems for the school day, The Daily Beast reported Friday.

    still, glad to hear that some people at the school had the sense to stop this crazy bullshit before it started

    Students were blunt about their objections.

    "It’s a little crazy because I would never have expected someone like her to show up at a high school," one senior said. Another told local news the ideology she promotes had no place in a classroom setting and that the school could find far more appropriate guest speakers.

    “I think the topics that she talks about are too extremist for a school. I think there are better representatives we can have,” said Francisco Sanchez, also a senior.

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  • [–] 74 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    I'm very proud of these kids.

    The kids are alright. And they rock.

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    I'm going to have to watch the doc. I very much have my doubts, too. People love to dunk on boomers, but, FFS, that's the generation known for the hippies. And now the term "boomers" has flipped into shorthand for people sitting around watching Faux "News" vs. people sparking up a joint and tending to their pot plants...

    If they are supposedly the worst now that they are reaching old age, just imagine what having no media filter/gating (as right wing as the corporate "liberal media" was and is - sure, that filter of the MSM is a two-edged sword, but fuuuuuck, if you let YT send you down the Nazi rabbit hole long before you've ever developed any kind of media literacy and/or critical thinking skills, it is going to cook your brain) and being given something like a tablet/phone from a very young age...

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    People love to dunk on boomers

    It's just thinly veiled ageism.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Nah. Boomers actually just suck.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago*

    hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours

    I find it horrifying that this is even an option. I don't think political parties/organizations should be allowed to recruit in schools at all. Let alone America's Hitlerjugend.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    "Sense" seems to be responding to backlash in this case. They are still supporting TP's extreme right-wing anti-education propaganda, by a school of all places!

    EDIT: It read like the school were organising it themselves but it seems it was by a student club? Kind of weird that such a thing exists and they can host "high-profile" people, but there might be some indication the school itself wasn't aware of it.

    The relocated gathering will be restricted to members of a TPUSA-affiliated student club and a single guest apiece. School officials were careful to note that taxpayer money won't foot the bill, and the visit carries no official district stamp of approval.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    seems to me like TP reached out to maybe some neo-nazi district admin that made a short-term booking with little-to-no notice (so they couldn't stop the nazis) to the actual school admin (except maybe the principle through some super-vague email, designed to hide the nazis) about some "district-mandated school assembly" (of nazis).

    Some state/county/local law must have kicked in, requiring some sort of disclosure to some series of people the ended up in people being informed they were about to be mind-pissed by a bunch of christo-nazis, and, clearly, lots of people - included very not-stupid children - had a major fucking problem with that.

    proud of those kids!

    these aren't just American values... I hope these are HUMAN values!

    if you don't believe this, I don't think you should be considered human

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  • [–] 76 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Dear Erika Kirk,

    Your late husband was a scourge on the world and he died a death too clean for his own good. We'd say it's disgusting you're using your husband's death as a platform to spread more misinformation and hate, but we suppose it's fitting that his memory is besmirched by your fucking lunacy. We wish you all the worst save perhaps your late husband's fate you pathetic pathetic excuse for a human being.

    Sincerely,

    Most of The United States Population

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  • [–] 54 points 6 months ago

    Everyone liked this.

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    [–] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    High school? College kids too tough to debate?

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    She was meeting to much resistance, went down an education step in hope to find pliable minds to corrupt.

    I bet in 6 months she'll be trying to perform at Elementary Schools... assuming shes allowed within 1500 feet of them given, you know, conservative grifters and their interests

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  • [–] 38 points 6 months ago

    -made me smile-

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Remember that this was even attempted next time we hear something about schools indoctrinating kids

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    In Idaho my daughters went to an assembly sponsored by the highschool during a school day that taught her that people who look at porn become serial killers.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Shit my health teacher in 2003 taught us that, showed us James Dobsons interview with Ted Bundy where he claimed that’s what made him a violent monster, in retrospect it’s very clear that Bundy is playing Dobson and telling him exactly what he wanted to hear.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    It's just further evidence to them: "So we can't have speakers in schools to share Republican values like women shouldn't vote, immigrants are evil, and they might die as a sacrifice to the 1st amendment, but it's perfectly fine to teach Leftist talking points like 'the Nazis and slavery were bad'?"

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    What a cesspool this countries institutions institutions are becoming. I bet she is getting taxpayer dollars to do this talk too.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well if sleeping with the Vice President 48 hours after becoming a widow doesn't earn you a chance to speak at a high school I don't know what will 😕

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago

    Get lost you ghoulish, fundamentalist attention whore.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago

    College Republicans are insufferable losers. Can you imagine the kind of kids who show up for a high school level TPUSA event?

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    What does she even talk about?

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago

    I've actually been to her events and they're pretty good.

    She talks about personal responsibility, American values, and that one time she conspired with Israel to assassinate her husband.

    All things considered, not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Apparently all it takes to be a TPUSA Talking Head is being married to one. No other qualifications necessary.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago

    Is society better off now that Charlie Kirk is dead? It certainly seems to be healing.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Like I dont get it. If women like Kirk want women to be totally subservient to men, why don't they fuck off and live in Afghanistan?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Oh she will be welcome in any high school in the South. I am glad I have retired teaching.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    Parents raised their own alarms, with several pointing to the political division Kirk's presence would inevitably import onto campus

    Peeve: it's not the division that's the problem. It's the hate and lies.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago*

    “So Timmy, what happened at school today”

    “Well Dad, you know that guy that got shot in the neck? The guy from the internet videos with the blood flying out of his neck? Well his wife is coming to school to talk to us! I guess she’s getting death threats too so the cops were doing active shooter drills with machine guns and everything!”

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    If only the headline were literally true. She was just blocked from speaking on campus.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Turning Point USA chief

    Turning Point USA has chiefs? lol

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I’m starting to think having her husband assassinated wasn’t really worth it.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    That headline just barely captured the facts lol

    Honestly though

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Incoming Charlie Kirk law in that state

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Who was responsible for naming that group? Didn’t they realize that the abbreviation would be interpreted as Toilet Paper USA?

    How did they not see that coming?

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sooo the dumb bitch failed at impressing adults so she moves to more impressionable minds and they won't have any of her nonsense?

    Good on them kids.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    It’s a public high school for fucks sake.

    Who from the school administration endorsed this visit in the first place? Never had to deal with political bullshit like this when I was in school.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    How was this even allowed to be staged in the first place? Someone at the school board should get fired..... From a cannon!

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    If the person who popped Kirk knew what kind of freakish dead-eyed monster would rise in his place, would they still pull the trigger?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe she hired out to do it.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    I remember Al Gore came to my high school during his run at the presidency, it was such a pain in the ass.we had cops at every enterance for weeks

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Oh, so that's why they're trying to pass laws against that

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Oh, no! But MAH FREEZED PEACH!

    I, as a conservative grifting anti-American asshole, have a right to being heard by a captive audience!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    What's even funnier is what Charlie Kirk had to say about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Can crazy eyes just go fuck herself? She might even feel human that way.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    Parents? Intervening in college? Seriously?

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